Chris Foresman
writes on ars technica:
"The Diaspora projectan attempt to make an open source, peer-to-peer replacement for Facebook with a focus on privacyhas reached its first major milestone. The first developer alpha is
now available for download and review,
and the group is now accepting code contributions from the open source community at large."

In
a comment on Steve Klabnik's blog,
Michael Chisari mentions their
Appleseed project,
another attempt to create an open source, fully distributed and decentralized social networking software, being under development since 2004 and probably more ready for prime time.

"Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction. The Fake Workflows you create can be saved, reopened, and shared. [...]
"Developers can use Fake
for graphically configuring automated tests for their webapps, including assertions, assertion failure handlers, and error handlers."

In the spirit of AppJet, Erbix is a serverjs app engine web IDE. Erbix allows you to write and deploy CommonJS modules in a sandboxed hosted soft-coding environment.

And get this: Erbix is itself an Erbix app! Now that's cool!

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In principal, Erbix claims to follow a "no vendor lock-in" approach. Eventually, CommonJS may indeed become an eco-system that will deliver on that promise. If you want to dabble with the interoperability of running CommonJS inside and outside of Erbix, the way to come as close as possible of rolling your own self-hosted setup would be to take
RingoJS for a Ride.

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